Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes
You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.
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In Europe, a great dancer might be on the same level as a movie star. In America, not so.
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The most important thing in imaging for me is the dynamic range. The dynamic range means the tones that you can capture from highlights to dark and the bits, the depth of color that you can capture.
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You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.
